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Title: The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924, ed
Subjects: Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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everal years,including a term as reporter in the Missouri state senate.In 1858 he was employed on the St. Louis Republican, aDouglas organ, and was sent to Illinois to report thetriumphant home-coming of the senator. His reportsappearing in the Republican showed such skill in his artthat he was employed by the Chicago Times, the officialnewspaper of Douglas, to report the set debates withLincoln. He shared this task with James B. Sheridan, aregular phonographic reporter, brought from Philadelphia. At the close of the campaign, Mr. Binmore became aprivate secretary to Douglas and in 1860 was made report-er in the House of Representatives. From this positionhe resigned to accept a secretarial appointment on thestaff of General Prentiss and later on that of GeneralHurlbut. At the close of the war, he returned to Chicago,became a law reporter, was admitted to the bar, and diedin that city, November 4, 1907. He left an unpublishedmanuscript on the art and experiences of reportorialwriting.
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HENRY BINMORE From a conteniijorary pliotogmph in the possession of the family, Chicago REPORTING THE DEBATES 81 JAMES B. SHERIDAN The art of phonography was early developed in Phila-delphia where was located a prominent school. Amongits early disciples was Mr. Sheridan, who became a promi-nent reporter on Forneys Philadelphia Press. Forneyespoused the cause of Douglas in his breach with Buchananand when the senator entered upon his great canvass forre-election, Forney sent Sheridan to Illinois to follow thecampaign. It was not the original intention to have himremain throughout the autumn, but the value of his ser-vices as a reporter was so evident that he was employedto take the debates for the Democratic Chicago Times, inconnection with Mr. Binmore. He continued to writedescriptive articles for the Press, many of the quotationsfrom that paper printed in this volume being no doubtcontributed by him. At the close of the campaign, Sheridan went to NewYork, enlisted as a northern Democ

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